Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls . |
| 2 | In Britain , it is almost entirely made up of upper-middle class , late-middle aged , white men . |
| 3 | In fact atoms are almost entirely made up of free space . |
| 4 | Such an equation is basically made up of two parts : viz which indicates that business conditions are good , and which indicates business conditions are poor . |
| 5 | He does n't have to steer at all ; he does n't look at his compass ; he need not even run his engines : his vessel is quite literally pulled out of one ocean and into the other by a sextet of electrically-powered ( and Japanese-made ) trains called ‘ mules ’ which run on American cast-iron rails beside the lock-gates of the Canal : all the captain has to do is stand on the bridge and watch , listen to the genial Yankee twang of his assigned American pilot and experience a transport of delight . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's all simulated out of woven soya protein . ’ |
| 7 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 8 | Although it is mostly made up of perennial plants which will come up fresh in spring , there are one or two evergreen shrubs added for structure : an upright rosemary and a couple of spiky yuccas . |
| 9 | Hypotheses seem to be effortlessly improvised out of thin air , the resulting theory giving the distinct impression of being a rather facile extemporisation . |
| 10 | They were the weavers followed by a few tottering sailors who had just come out of another tavern . |
| 11 | The whole structure was thus made up of crystalline regions imbedded randomly in a continuous amorphous matrix . |
| 12 | The first are the poorer urban dwellers — these are largely made up of junior office staff , workers in the retail and hotel sectors , petty retailers and petty commodity producers and the unemployed , old and sick . |
| 13 | Pension funds can further diversify their portfolios by investing in a spread of these units across different managed funds ( insurance companies have in fact set up specialised managed funds that are largely made up of specific investments , to allow such diversification across managed funds by pension funds ) . |
| 14 | One of the problems with the prison service is that it is directly driven by civil servants and largely made up of civil servants . |
| 15 | The story is largely made up of legendary motifs , biblical recollections and Christian hostility ; it is after all meant to explain how the Christians took over a Jewish synagogue in Antioch which preserved , according to another source , the mantle of Moses , the surviving fragments of the Law tables , the keys of the Ark and other treasures . |
| 16 | Their community was largely made up of American slaves who had fled across the border to freedom in a British territory . |
| 17 | The reports said that the bandit groups were largely made up of demobilized soldiers . |
| 18 | Brown mustard is the one grown commercially as it is a shorter plant , at 120–150cm ( 4–5ft ) and the seeds do not fall off easily ; it is largely used instead of black mustard , and has a slightly less hot flavour . |
| 19 | FRANK BRUNO has astonishingly leapt ahead of British rival Lennox Lewis in the race to get first crack at the world heavyweight championship . |
| 20 | ‘ For some children it would give them the opportunity to wreak mayhem , while other , more sensitive children would be deeply affected out of all proportion to what they had done . |
| 21 | Disabled housewives in particular had been totally left out of previous schemes . |
| 22 | In those days a new house was usually constructed out of wooden hut sections of which there was a plentiful supply as most of the troops stationed here in the war lived in wooden prefabricated buildings and when they left Orkney the buildings were dismantled and then sold . |
| 23 | You 've nearly grown out of those trousers |
| 24 | The code for a particular protein is first copied by a process known as transcription into a complementary molecule , messenger-RNA , which is also made up of four nucleotides . |
| 25 | Ore was also brought out of Middle Level , along a gantry , and tipped into a chute feeding a hopper , partly cut from the rock , and partly of timber . |
| 26 | Brecht later worked out of this mould in his different epic theatre . |
| 27 | This story is really made up of two stories : A How Rima caught and caged the cassowary B How the Bower-bird tricked the Cassowary . |
| 28 | One fighter had been a Skinhead and had worn the appropriate ‘ gear ’ of his time but had now grown out of this kind of thing . |
| 29 | In everyday language , ‘ professional ’ is often used adjectivally of any performance to denote features of that performance which have nothing to do directly with exchange value . |
| 30 | Much of the heat has by now gone out of these arguments , and it is fairly generally accepted , first that college librarians should be appointed on teaching scales and given academic status by nature of their work , and secondly that the work of a college librarian implies the librarian 's own active participation as a librarian in the college 's educational programme . |